NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 4860

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 130W)

ATI Radeon HD 4860 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860 +330%

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 4860

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.40 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

896.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

179.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV790

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV790 GT

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.959 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

282 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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